Veranda, garden-facing city residences

Garden-facing residences, held in afternoon light.

A building organised around the hour the light arrives.

Veranda begins with orientation rather than elevation. Every residence turns west to a planted terrace, so the rooms that hold the day are the rooms you live in most.

A double-height room in pale green lime plaster, with a tall slot window and a glazed door opening onto planting. Two curved cream sofas sit on a wide oak floor, and a mezzanine edge crosses the upper right. — Terrace room01 / 02

A tall honed limestone arch opening into a dark passage, with a second arch beyond it framing a narrow courtyard of clipped cypress and a single multi-stem tree. — Portrait crops sit flush to the baseline of the landscape frame. Captions align to the hairline above.

Depth is made by light and shadow, not by ornament. A room with one good aspect needs very little else.

A design position, not a testimonial. Veranda is a concept brand with no client, architect or award behind it.

A long living room with a full-height glazed wall down one side and a heavy curtain at the far end. A low pale sofa and a long oak table sit on a wide oak floor, with late sun raking across the boards toward a planted courtyard outside.

Rooms that keep the afternoon.

Living space runs the full width of the west elevation. The terrace is treated as a room rather than a balcony, deep enough to plant and to sit in, with the parapet set low so the sky stays in view from a chair.

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A long honed limestone coping cantilevered from a wall of pale green lime plaster, with low afternoon sun raking across the stone and throwing a soft diagonal shadow down onto wide oak decking.

The west elevation.

The plan is set so the living rooms face the planted terrace and the low afternoon sun. The materials are chosen for how they hold that light rather than for how they look in a brochure.

Parapet: Honed limestone, low enough to sit against
Soffit: Lime plaster, left to hold the reflected light
Floor: Wide board oak, running out to the terrace line
Planting: Evergreen structure at the parapet, deciduous behind

Amenities

A glazed garden pavilion with slender dark steel frames, open to mature planting on two sides. Ferns and clipped hedging press against the glass, cream armchairs stand on stone paving, and a large conifer fills the view beyond.

The garden room

A shared room at garden level, open to the planting on two sides, kept warm enough to use through winter.

A long terrace at dusk under a deep blue sky. A tall conifer hedge runs behind a limestone planter wall, recessed floor lights wash the oak decking, and a glazed wall reflects the last light on the right.

The long terrace

The upper terrace runs the length of the west elevation, planted at the parapet so the edge of the building reads as green from the street.

A low building in pale green plaster set back behind a dry stone boundary wall and a clipped hedge, with mature trees rising in front of it and an empty road across the foreground.

Set back from the street.

The building holds the back of its plot so the garden sits between the residences and the road. The quiet side and the bright side are the same side.

No location is named. Veranda is a concept brand and is not sited anywhere.

Availability

There is no release schedule to publish. Veranda is a concept brand built to demonstrate a design system, so no residence is for sale.